Friday 19 February 2016

Skeleton keys open doors for all governments, not just ours

Does the U.S. government have the right to examine any of our private information, no matter how it’s stored, with a properly executed warrant? That’s the crux of the latest battle between Apple and the FBI. As you can read elsewhere on Macworld, the United States District Court of California has issued an order requiring Apple to build firmware to decrypt an iPhone 5c owned by one of the San Bernardino terrorists.

But I’d like to hone in on a couple of things Tim Cook said in his public letter explaining Apple’s rejection of the court order, which it’s expressed in legal terms in a filing as well:

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